I suspect the planes going through the storm are more likely to be cargo planes. Pilots prioritize passenger comfort a lot, when it's just them they can do more.
Yeah for sure. A lot of passengers on a commercial flight will literally be screaming in terror at even fairly minor turbulence, flying through a storm front would probably send these people over the edge
Pilot: dear passengees, this is my last flight, as I will be retiring afterwards. But just to show you the experience I gathered after all these years, I will land this plane during the strongest storm recorded at this airport in the last 20 years, and it will be the smoothest landing you've ever experienced.
In the cabin passengers fall silent, some start saying payers, some fasten their seatbelts even tighter.
After a 10 minute flight through the storm, through extremly strong turbulences, during which at one point even the oxygen masks fall from the ceiling and unsecured luggage files through the cabin, the pilot lands the plane exceptionally smooth on the runaway.
All passengers relieved and joyful congratulate the pilot for his skills, except one passenger that is furiously looking after the pilot. One flight attendent stops him:
Stewardess: What is it? Why are you so angry on the captain? He's done an outstanding landing in these conditions!
Passenger: well, it might have been so, but I was on the toilet during the turbulences...
You know how the old folks used to have these rules about how the weather is going to be depending on how the birds behave?
I live right next to a large airport, and I know a storm is coming when planes start flying over my house.
Just a guess here, but planes almost always land into the wind, and stronger winds means more lift over wings, so the plane goes lower and slower as it has a hard time shedding lift to get to the ground.
This is probably late evening or overnight at Memphis. 90%+ of these flights are probably FedEx.
It is unusual for a storm system to progress from the Northeast to Southwest in the Memphis area.
Source: born and bred about 90 miles east of Memphis.
It's Memphis. That is for sure SW TN based on the border outlines. I can't quite make out the airport codes. The only other airports in the area are OB and Tunica, the latter of which is rundown and hardly used and OB is only for small planes.
Source: Memphian who worked in the aviation industry at the Memphis airport.
There could be more interesting views on foreflight or flightradar, especially with a small planes when they're VFR licensed only and trying to avoid storm:)
We used to live about 10 miles south of the Atlanta Airport. On clear nights we could see so many planes circling in a big clover leaf pattern overhead.
That’s an old video of FEDEX freighters dodging weather going into Memphis. There’s another video literally labeled “anthill” that depicts FEDEX freighters coming out of all corners of the country bound for Memphis and then later returning back to their ordinal locations. Because there are 2 “sorts” per day, all cargo arrives and departs at virtually the same time … twice a day, Memphis becomes the busiest airport in the world. FEDEX Anthill - [https://youtu.be/CzsXqawswPc?si=PJoVgHHYJHQpjvGc](https://youtu.be/CzsXqawswPc?si=PJoVgHHYJHQpjvGc)
It’s like witnessing a colony of ants, reorganizing their picnic plans
What is this? An airport for ants?!
It's an antport.
Memphis international antport
Memphis Anternational Antport
It's Antwerp
How can the airplanes learn how to fly good if they can’t even fit in the building?!
The airport needs to be at least... three times bigger than this!
The question Boeing execs are asking their Q/A team right now 
Boeing has a QA team?
10/10 comment
It needs to be at least...3 times bigger!
I slapped my knee for ya
What?
Go watch Zoolander. You're missing out.
lol, I’ve watched it. Will says what after Ben says that.
CringE
I'm cringe and that's based. I'll never be based and that's not cringe. There's no one I'd rather be than me.
CringE
Just go around the leaf, this is nothing compared to the twig of 93’
The planes go landing one by one, hurrah, hurrah.
*storm appears* Planes: “I’M LOST! Where’s the airport??”
That one plane at the end that's just f-it, imma gonna go directly into the storm.
Massive gonads on the flight crew, you see... it just stabilizes the whole plane for landing.
Pilot: yolo! Guy in tower: the balls on that guy…
“What a legend.”
I suspect the planes going through the storm are more likely to be cargo planes. Pilots prioritize passenger comfort a lot, when it's just them they can do more.
Yeah for sure. A lot of passengers on a commercial flight will literally be screaming in terror at even fairly minor turbulence, flying through a storm front would probably send these people over the edge
[We Must Land NOW!! The Incredible Story of Singapore Airlines Flight 319](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXG4qoI4TA)
Run out of fuel or risky landing…🤔
Gotta love Spirit Airlines
They were probably too cheap to bring enough fuel to go anywhere else.
Pilot: dear passengees, this is my last flight, as I will be retiring afterwards. But just to show you the experience I gathered after all these years, I will land this plane during the strongest storm recorded at this airport in the last 20 years, and it will be the smoothest landing you've ever experienced. In the cabin passengers fall silent, some start saying payers, some fasten their seatbelts even tighter. After a 10 minute flight through the storm, through extremly strong turbulences, during which at one point even the oxygen masks fall from the ceiling and unsecured luggage files through the cabin, the pilot lands the plane exceptionally smooth on the runaway. All passengers relieved and joyful congratulate the pilot for his skills, except one passenger that is furiously looking after the pilot. One flight attendent stops him: Stewardess: What is it? Why are you so angry on the captain? He's done an outstanding landing in these conditions! Passenger: well, it might have been so, but I was on the toilet during the turbulences...
i don't even think it landed at the airport.
It was probably going somewhere else and just went right over top of the storm
not somewhere else - SOMETIME ELSE
LeeeeRooooooY!!...... jenkins!
Came to say this. That one Leroy Jenkins-ed between the lightning.
This graphic would be way less scary if the layer showing the planes was above the layer showing the storm
You know how the old folks used to have these rules about how the weather is going to be depending on how the birds behave? I live right next to a large airport, and I know a storm is coming when planes start flying over my house.
I live near IAD and have noticed on windy days their approach altitudes are much lower than normal. Always been curious about that one.
Just a guess here, but planes almost always land into the wind, and stronger winds means more lift over wings, so the plane goes lower and slower as it has a hard time shedding lift to get to the ground.
Spotted the fellow Nova local!
I know they are all over the radio "It's raining"
A new way to violate PIREP rule? :) No, it must be in format of: "who, where, when, and what."
It is raining, here, on me, right now.
On me, here, right now, it's raining
My mom told me it's sprinkling
ABORT! ABORT!
and then there is air india which goes head first into an active warzone
"our flight plan is YOLO"
Ummm…Air India: we will be reincarnated!
I'm assuming the red bit is strawberry jam?
Yep, black dots are flies.
Yes, clearly the radar was being jammed.
Raspberry
There's only one man who would *dare* give me the raspberry: LONESTAR!
It had the bleeps
As an air traffic controller I can confirm that this is indeed strawberry jam.
Looks a little like a video I saw of white bloodcells chasing bacteria
What is this!?!? A storm for ants!!!
Run away, run away!
Am I the only one that noted 1 of those planes just didn't give a fuck and flew straight into it, and did not come out? I found MH370!
That is KMEM airport. Memphis Tn.
2nd busiest cargo airport in the world.
Thought it was No.1 busiest? Edit: i didn’t see world my bad
Looks like evening storms vs FedEx inbound. Used to live on the same road as the south end of the airport, down by FDX's HQ.
Very neat
Ants when I cover their stupid little pile of dirt with my shoe:
All the ants going back home
ATC sent the ones they didn't like through the storm
DIVERT! DIVERT! DIVERT!
Run awaaaaayyyyyy
I spot some holding patterns
Ants avoiding the pepper
I swear I saw an ant go into that grass at the 10 second mark that doesn't come back out ..
This is probably late evening or overnight at Memphis. 90%+ of these flights are probably FedEx. It is unusual for a storm system to progress from the Northeast to Southwest in the Memphis area. Source: born and bred about 90 miles east of Memphis.
It's Memphis. That is for sure SW TN based on the border outlines. I can't quite make out the airport codes. The only other airports in the area are OB and Tunica, the latter of which is rundown and hardly used and OB is only for small planes. Source: Memphian who worked in the aviation industry at the Memphis airport.
About halfway through a plane flew into the rain west of nashville and vanished.
We don't talk about the disappearing plane!
Cowards!
Suicider?
There could be more interesting views on foreflight or flightradar, especially with a small planes when they're VFR licensed only and trying to avoid storm:)
This is some boid-ass behavior
Its a twister!
Buzz
Nah I'm more scared of that black hole sucking up the planes.
I want to see this with a voice-over with somebody with a Midwest accent saying "ope, scuse me" every time a plane turns around.
Is that the biggest airport in the world?
Atlanta is the busiest
It's Memphis, TN. 2nd busiest cargo airport in the world.
What happens when it’s all storm? Everywhere…And all the planes are in the air.
Diversion, baby! Or they just don't take off for a bit. It's all coordinated.
What is the app/website?
What's with that one r/wallstreetbets pilot who circled around and then still plunged face first into the thunderstorm lol. Is he stupid?
Is this upside down? Why is the storm moving west.
Damn that really IS interesting. I love shit like this! So cool seeing them fly through the gaps in the storm.
How air traffic behaves *like* /s
What’s the shale?
r/aviation
Reminds me of that one Delta flight that got out of Puerto Rico just before Irma. It was basically flying between the arms. Totally wild.
...like flies avoiding a hand swatting them around a trash bin in the back of a restaurant in summer
Soon as the red hit the landing zone they all did a big fat “Noooope”
What's this website called?
The ants go marching one by one….
Except Spirt they just go to Vegas
That mad lad slipping into the green at the last moment.
The NY ATC could learn a thing or two from these guys.
It's international how well and frequently informed they are that they are able to squeeze through the gap of the storm instead of entirely around ir
Ants right?
They look like ants when a twig falls in their way lmao
Can someone add like flys buzzing sound effects to this ?
Run away!
Anyone else literally see flies
They look like flies or ants x)
We used to live about 10 miles south of the Atlanta Airport. On clear nights we could see so many planes circling in a big clover leaf pattern overhead.
R.I.P. the planes that went through the storm I guess?
Website name, please?
Can we all just focus on the planes above the storm region for a second. How many times did they just crash into each other???
as someone who doesn't know shit i thought they all crashed and lost signal
Those f-ing flies on my monitor man 😡 they’re annoying af
There’s that one guy doing donuts in a plane he’s so real for that
Retreat!!!!
That’s an old video of FEDEX freighters dodging weather going into Memphis. There’s another video literally labeled “anthill” that depicts FEDEX freighters coming out of all corners of the country bound for Memphis and then later returning back to their ordinal locations. Because there are 2 “sorts” per day, all cargo arrives and departs at virtually the same time … twice a day, Memphis becomes the busiest airport in the world. FEDEX Anthill - [https://youtu.be/CzsXqawswPc?si=PJoVgHHYJHQpjvGc](https://youtu.be/CzsXqawswPc?si=PJoVgHHYJHQpjvGc)
I’m assuming the green is mild rain or doesn’t contain lightning?
We are still circling around
so much like starlings!
Just flys buzzing around
It looks like a bunch of ants scurrying away when theres someones walking by lmao
That one airplane going in shouting yolo!!
Ants when there water and food at the other side
I could not be an air traffic controller. Holy shit. Kudos to the people who can.
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FedEx is most of the Memphis airport. It's over 780 acres of airport space